FROM TODAYS DAILY REFLECTION: “Abba, Father,” he cried out, “everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.” - Mark 14:36 Perhaps no other passage in Scripture more powerfully demonstrates the humanity of Jesus. No other passage allows us to feel just how much his experience was like our own. Jesus knew what it meant to struggle with God’s will. He was familiar with the challenge of following the Father when his way is difficult, painful, and overwhelming. This means that Jesus understands our struggles, not as an outsider looking in, but as an insider, as one of us. Thus when we are struggling with the Lord, when we find obedience to be hard to attain, we can know that Jesus gets it. This gives us the confidence to ask for his help, without guilt or shame. As we learn to open our hearts fully to God, we will find from him the help we need to obey. Through the Spirit, we will be able to echo Jesus’ prayer of humble submission: “Yet I want your will to be done, not mine” (14:36).
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:30:00 +0000
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